Mouse strangeness
A few days ago I posted a problem with testing beta4 where a Genius KYE
wheelemouse behaved strangely under X even though the same mice work
fine with other Debians and even the same machine with Knoppix for
example.
It is for a rack machine where the idea is that a USB keyboard/mouse
will be plugged in as and when and not when the thing boots.
I suspected my problems were to do with the kernel modules and was
right, sort of.
I can get the mouse to behave properly by reloading
mousedev and usbmouse when in a console (the script uses chvt to
accomplish this otherwise the things won't unload) window before
restarting X. But X does then need restarting (CTRL-ALT-BSP) rather
than switching back to it. Then the USB mouse/mice can be (un)plugged
anytime and everything behaves.
But as far as I can tell it's no good just loading the modules before X
starts for the first time if a USB mouse hasn't yet been plugged in.
Arggh.
Jon
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